a. [mod. f. L. condensā-re to CONDENSE: see -BLE. Also in mod.F. (The erroneous spelling condensible is app. after expansible, extensible, etc., from L. pa. pple.)] That may be condensed.

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  1.  That may be increased in density, or reduced in volume; compressible.

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1644.  Digby, Nat. Bodies, ix. (R.). Not being in the utmost extremity of density, but condensable yet further.

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1768.  Franklin, Wks. (1840), V. 424. Vapor … condensable again by the least coolness.

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1828.  Hutton, Course Math., II. 255. Air is … condensible and expansible.

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  2.  That may be reduced from the state of gas or vapor to the liquid or solid condition.

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1788.  Priestley, in Phil. Trans., LXXVIII. 152. The slowly condensable vapour.

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1794.  G. Adams, Nat. & Exp. Philos., I. xi. 461. [Carbonic acid] is not condensible in the common temperature and pressure of our atmosphere.

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1802.  Henry, in Phil. Trans., XCIII. 29. The proportion of carbonic acid gas condensible in water.

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1871.  B. Stewart, Heat, § 135. If the gas be condensable, liquid will begin to make its appearance.

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1878.  Newcomb, Pop. Astron., III. ii. 274. Metallic vapors condensable at a certain temperature.

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